Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread john skaller
On 11/01/2013, at 8:57 AM, Raoul Duke wrote: > what dynamic modifications can felix do after it has been compiled + > has started running the executable? vs. say Ruby's open classes? I have no idea what Ruby's open classes do, I can't write Ruby code. Felix can load plugins which can contain co

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread john skaller
On 11/01/2013, at 8:53 AM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: > > When communicating with others, it is their definition of words that matters, > not yours. I'm sure you can argue technicalities like this, but it's just a > way of saying "You're wrong, I'm right, nah nah nah !" "Dynamic language" > an

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread john skaller
On 11/01/2013, at 6:43 AM, srean wrote: > Perhaps you should bow to the masses and remove the "Scripting language" > moniker from Felix. It probably is doing more harm than good at this point. The intent is that it be just as capable of ease of use as Python, Perl, Lua, or other such language.

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread Raoul Duke
what dynamic modifications can felix do after it has been compiled + has started running the executable? vs. say Ruby's open classes? -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 A

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread Dobes Vandermeer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM, john skaller wrote: > > On 11/01/2013, at 6:07 AM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: > > > As usual it all boils down to confusion about definitions of terms. > Terms like dynamisms leave the mouth (or keyboard) with one meaning and > arrive with another. Here's a pretty

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread john skaller
On 11/01/2013, at 6:07 AM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: > As usual it all boils down to confusion about definitions of terms. Terms > like dynamisms leave the mouth (or keyboard) with one meaning and arrive with > another. Here's a pretty good definition from Wikipedia: > > Dynamic programming la

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread Dobes Vandermeer
As usual it all boils down to confusion about definitions of terms. Terms like dynamisms leave the mouth (or keyboard) with one meaning and arrive with another. Here's a pretty good definition from Wikipedia: *Dynamic programming language* is a term used broadly in computer science

[Felix-language] Can a strongly typed language be highly dynamic?

2013-01-10 Thread john skaller
This was raised on Facebook but my response is going here. Should go in a blog of course .. :) I content that only a strongly typed language can be highly dynamic. An interesting point was made by someone on Y-combinator that a scripting language should be defined by possession of an eval() functi